Scala & Kolacny Brothers: News

Dear fans of Scala & Kolacny Brothers,
 

this is a special newsletter, an invitation to attend an exclusive night on Friday 9th January 2009, viz. the première of Scala's new Paper Plane tour. Come to the DE ROMA hall, Turnhoutsebaan 286, in Borgerhout, Antwerp (Belgium) (www.deroma.be) to listen to our new songs and see our new clips. The venue is esay to find, near the Antwerp Central railway station. There are large car park facilities and several hotels in the area. Ticket price normally is €20.

But what makes this invitation so special? What more can we offer?
Order your ticket(s) by calling 00 32 3 292 97 40 (on working days, between 9.30 and 12.30 a.m. and between 1.30 and 4 p.m.) and give us the code word 'FRATELLI' and you will receive a VIP ticket!
This VIP ticket means a reserved seat, an exclusive meet & greet with Stijn and Steven, the Scala girls and the whole Scala team. Moreover, at the after-party, each VIP ticket can be exchanged for a free Paper Plane CD, Scala's newest album.
VIP tickets can only be ordered by phone. Payment is possible by bank or by credit card. Ticket(s) will be sent to your address as soon as we are in receipt of your payment.

IMPORTANT! These VIP tickets are exclusive and limited in number. So don't wait too long to order yours.

We are really looking forward to meeting you on 9th January for the première of our new Paper Plane tour. See you at DE ROMA in Borgerhout!

Very friendly yours,

The Scala & Kolacny Brothers team

Dear fans of Scala,

the deluxe edition of Paper Plane, Scala’s new CD, is complete. This exquisitely presented fine velvet-look hard-back edition houses the Paper Plane CD, a bonus CD with 5 extra tracks (see tracklist below), an exclusive photo book and a DVD featuring the Raintears video clip and ‘Impressions of a Nice Week’, a 20-minute exclusive documentary. A whole week Scala was followed by a camera team while touring in Germany and Belgium. This resulted in unprecedented footage of Scala sidestage, backstage, at the hotel and in the coaches. French, German and English subtitles have been provided for.

This deluxe edition of Paper Plane is a ‘must have’ item for the real Scala fan! Yet, it will not be available in record shops. You’ll be able to get it exclusively at the Scalashop through our website and at Scala concerts. Paper Plane ‘De Luxe’ is a limited edition, only 250 were produced. So don’t wait too long to order.

BONUS CD tracklist

1° Tous les rêves sont en nous (Pierre Rapsat)
2° Un Dimanche En Automne (Pierre Rapsat)
3° Comme Un Brasero (Pierre Rapsat)
4° Seashell - the Northsea Remix
5° Heartbeats - Jan Vervloet Remix

Scala choir girls go naked for Pim Smit’s bodypaint project

Dear fans of Scala,
A few weeks ago the Scala choir girls were colour-sprayed by Pim Smit, a Dutch painter from Amsterdam who lives in Tirlemont (Belgium).
Footage of this huge bodypaint project was used to make the video clip (produced by Jan Vrints, directed by Senol Korkmaz) for Seashell, a new single from Scala’s brand new album Paper Plane. After the collective bodypaint session, a few Scala girls, who refused to be replaced by professional actresses or stand-ins, went naked and were painted from top to toe by artist Pim Smit.
 

As a fan of Scala, you will be among the first to be able to watch this clip on www.scalachoir.com. TV reports about the bodypainting project and the making of the clip can be watched on www.pimsmit.com.
Our newest album Paper Plane is on sale now in most of the record shops in Flanders, and is still downloadable free through Scala’s website. Scala fans keep downloading it but also buy it. Our thanks to you all, and hope you will continue to enjoy our music.

Dear fans of Scala & Kolacny Brothers,

the 10 songs of Scala's new album Paper Plane will all be downloadable free as from 11th September and until further notice. Click here for the downloads or if you want more information.

This present is for our true fans all over the world to allow them to listen to our brand new album.

You can also watch the Raintears video clip by clicking here. Further information for buying the very Paper Plane CD will be available on our website under Scalashop.

We hope that you will like our new songs and can't wait to read your comments. Enjoy Paper Plane! See you at one of our next concerts!

Kind regards,

The Scala & Kolacny Brothers team

Dear fans of Scala,

A deluxe edition of Paper Plane, Scala’s new CD, will be available at the end of October. This exquisitely presented fine velvet-look hard-back edition houses the Paper Plane CD, a bonus CD with 5 extra tracks and a DVD featuring the Raintears video clip and a 20-minute exclusive Scala documentary entitled ‘Impressions of a Nice Week’. A whole week Scala was followed by a camera team while touring in Germany and Belgium. This resulted in unprecedented footage of Scala sidestage, backstage, in the hotel and the coaches. French, German and English subtitles have been provided for. This deluxe edition of Paper Plane is a ‘must have’ item for the real Scala fan! Yet, it will not be for sale in record shops. You’ll be able to get it exclusively at the Scala shop through our website and at Scala concerts. For more information, check back in October.

We did it! At last, Scala’s album ‘It All Leads To This’ album is available on iTunes and Amazon.
‘Paper Plane’, Scala’s new album will also be on iTunes and Amazon as from 15th September, even before its release in the record shops.

Dear fans of Scala,

the release date of Paper Plane is getting closer. This new album of Scala & Kolacny Brothers will be available in the record shops in Belgium on 19th September.
Yet, you will be able to download it from i-Tunes as soon as Monday 15th September!
As a fan you are being offered an exclusivity, viz. RAINTEARS, the first single from Scala’s new album.
 

Click here to watch the clip...

We hope you will like it.

Very friendly yours,

The whole Scala team

Artist Pim Smit and the Kolacny Brothers are going to work out a very peculiar project that will climax on 6th September in Tirlemont in Belgium.
 

The full Scala choir will lie down on the floor of Pim’s studio to become part of the world’s biggest bodypaint project ever.
 

In 1 session at least 150 Scala girls are going to be bodypainted into one big living artwork.

This project has been registered with the Guiness Book of Records. This event will of course be attended by an official delegation of Guinness Book of Records Ltd.

www.pimsmit.com

Dear fans of Scala,

Nothing is what it seems to be. Indeed, Scala has traded the seeming quietness for the recording studios where it is working at its new album ‘Paper Plane’.

‘Paper Plane’ stands for the light, pure and diaphanous angel voices soaring above Scala’s audience like a paper plane. The lead track itself expresses unconditional faith in life and love.

Scala is evolving ... All the songs for Paper Plane have been written by Steven Kolacny. So the album will feature Scala’s own songs only and no longer covers.
Taking this seemingly obvious step was not easy since Scala is known for its arrangements and covers of international rock and pop hits.
‘Paper Plane’ provides a new dimension to the Scala concept and allows the choir to make a long step forward.

As a matter of fact we hope you will welcome this evolution and go on supporting Scala as you dif before.

‘Paper Plane’ will be released on 1st October 2008. More information will be provided in the following weeks, including the dates of all the Scala concerts.

Tracklisting (not final)

CD A
1° Paper Plane
2° Raintears
3° It Never Will Come Back
4° Seashell
5° Kleine Man (Little Man)
6° Magic
7° Splinter
8° I Will Bleed For You
9° Woorden (Words)
10° A Little More Each Time

This Gold Record is presented to Scala for selling more than 15,000 "It All Leads To This" albums in Belgium.
Gold was reached in September 2006, even before the start of the sold out "It All Leads To This" tour.

Dear fans of Scala,
namedropping very seldom happens on our own web site, but since the compliment below comes from the Best Band On Earth, we could not but share this information with you all.
Interview in HUMO - 3510/50 (11.12.07): Jonny Greenwood's (Radiohead) reply when asked what he thinks of Scala's version of "Everything In Its Right Place" (It All Leads To This album):

"I do have a CD of Scala at home, but I've never heard this cover before. Very tasteful, orginally performed, it's even moving. Congratulations to the Scala girls!"

Dear fans of Scala, organizers of concerts, events and festivals,

Scala & Kolacny Brothers are currently looking for extra dates that should fit in a tour in Germany during the summer of 2008.
More specifically, we are looking for performance opportunitites on 7th, 8th or 9th July 2008.
Proposals to perform in Germany on other dates will have priority during the whole summer period.

Contact Steven Kolacny, Scala management, through this web site or info@kolacny.com or by phone (0032 473461990)

Scala invited by José Carreras !

José Carreras (one of the three world-famous tenors with Pavarotti and Placido Domingo) has been seduced by Scala, the Flemish girl choir of the Kolacny brothers.
Carreras has his own show on the German ARD TV chain, viz. the „José Carreras Gala“. Scala will perform live on 13th December (broadcast from Leipzig). José Carreras has asked Scala to sing one the songs from their latest album (produced by EMI Germany) “One-Winged Angel” but this time with the 80 musicians of a symphony orchestra. Besides, on request of Carreras’ management, the Scala choir girls will sing another song together with the tenor himself.

The José Carreras International Leukaemia Foundation

In 1987, the Spanish tenor José Carreras was told to have leukaemia. Thanks to medical progress he recovered from this disease. The support of family and friends helped him through this difficult time.  Carreras felt there was a debt to be paid and he created the José Carreras International Leukaemia Foundation, the head office of which is in Barcelona (Spain). Later on, two more foundations were created in the USA and Switzerland. In 1995, Carreras founded the German José Carreras Leukamie-Stiftung e.V. with head office in Munich. The Foundations all have a social purpose which Carreras states as follows: “Leukaemia must be curable, always and with everyone.”

Gala

MDR will broadcast this benefit concert live from the Messehalle 1 in Leipzig on the German ARD tv channel. Besides top guest José Carreras, Axel Bulthaupt, a well-known German presentator, will lead the public through the show. Public and artists may expect a varied programme with patients’ emotional testimonies, world stars and distinguished guests. Katie Melua and Herbert Grönemeyer have already confirmed that they will perform.

For more information:

MDR

MDR/ Presse

Carreras Stiftung

On Thursday 20th September, Scala & Kolacny Brothers will perform on the occasion of the the maypole erection at the O2 World Arena in Berlin, in front of an audience of German ministers. This event is taking place one year after the first stone laying of this huge complex which will be one of the most modern and multifunctional arenas in Europe.

On the same day, in the evening, Scala will perform at the Kulturbrauerei on the occasion of Popkomm, with Midem, the biggest trade show of the music industry in Europe. On Saturday 22nd September, the choir girls have been invited to perform at Radio Eins’ 10th birthday show at the Admiralpalast in Berlin. 

By the end of September, the German singer Nena will release her new album featuring Ein Lied (originally sung by Rammstein), a cover which she recorded with the Scala girls.

The new single of Regi and Scala, "I Fail" is on sale and can be dowloaded from i-tunes.

Here are a few interesting links which we have selected specially for Scala's fans:

On www.mp3tunes.be you can buy the single for 2 € only, in the short and/or long version and the ringtone (realtone) is sent to your cell phone for free. A MUST-HAVE SONG!

To see the video clip of "I Fail" surf to www.myspace.com/mostiko. You can also listen to all the remixes on your i-pod.

"I Fail" ... pure choir sounds wrapped in fantastic dance music! You have never seen or heard such a thing, even as a Scala fan!

"I Fail" will show you Regi Penxten singing among dozens of Scala girls.
 

"I Fail" has been written by the same Regi Penxten, with Koen Buyse (Zornik) and Steven Kolacny.
 

It will be on Regi's solo CD (release by the end of 2007).
The single version of "I Fail"will be released at the beginning of June.
The clip for "I Fail" was recorded in Ghent last Friday 10th May.
 

"I Fail" is already available on iTunes...
 

In a fortnight, Scala & Kolacny Brothers will have the pleasure to present their brand new album 'One-Winged Angel' to the French public.

On 16th and 17th May, Scala will perform at the Café de la Danse in Paris (7.30 p.m.).

Tickets for both concerts are available at the following sites:

Infoconcert.com

fnacspectacles.com

ticketnet.fr

Those among you who cannot wait, can listen to the songs here and/or watch the video here ...

We are looking forward to meet you (again) in Paris.  See you there!

Our goal is to collect at least 4.000 videos!
 

Given that each video equals 10 kilometers we will achieve the distance of 40,000 kilometers, so that the canon circles one time the earth!
 

How does it work?

Send us your video of singing our song "I believe in you" and become a part of the canon! You simply have to visit our page www.scala-canon.com and follow the instructions.
You can download a playback-file for your video, submit your videos as well as watch and comment other videos on our page.
We've already uploaded some of our own videos there and are looking forward to yours!
Singing along with us won't be the only fun!
We want to reward your help!
Each submitted video has the chance to win:

1 x Nintendo Wii, 5 x CD Pack's and 66 x Scala T-Shirts

But above all every video is a support for your country in our country ranking!
The country with the most submitted videos will be the winner of a free Scala concert in their capital!
 

Become a part and join in the canon!

We believe in you!

Dear fans of Scala & Kolacny Brothers,

we are only four days away from Friday 23rd March 2007, the day on which Scala's new album „One-Winged Angel“ will be released in Germany, Austria and Switzerland.

„One-Winged Angel“ is the first album which Scala & Kolacny Brothers is releasing with its new label Virgin Music Germany.  Depeche Mode, Placebo and Kylie Minogue are just a few names among the 14 songs on the CD. You will find the full track list on this page…, and will be able to listen to all the titles.

The album will be available in all record shops in Germany, Austria and Switzerland as from 23rd March. You can also get it from internet shops such as Amazon, and at the Scala shop of course.

It will be 50 years since the signature of the Treaty of Rome, and this will be celebrated in style at an evening concert under the Atomium in Brussels. The concert will be broadcast live on television.

Stars from all over Europe will be present to celebrate this anniversary in the Capital of Europe including Hooverphonic, Zucchero, Axelle Red, Nadya, Maurane, Kate Ryan, Simply Red, Scala, Laurent Voulzy, The Scorpions, Gypsy Kings, Ozark Henri, Helmut Lotti. see website

Dear fans of Scala,

Due to the recording sessions for our new international album (to be released throughout Europe in March 2007) Scala & Kolacny Brothers unfortunately have to postpone their concert In Luxemburg planned on 15th November. We apologize for this and will inform you of the new date on our web site.

New dates for the Scala concerts in the next months will soon be published.
We can already tell you that Scala & Kolacny Brothers will perform at the ClassX concert instead of Toots Thielemans.
Date: 29th November 2006 - Venue:'Elisabethzaal' in Antwerp. For tickets and more info, check Concerts on our web site.

The Scala girls and the Kolacny brothers performed at the 0110 concerts in Antwerp, not against something or someone but FOR someone. They dedicated their miniconcert to Luna and her au-pair friend, two girls whose life was abruptly stopped by an ideology of some kind, who will never be able to enjoy anymore the opportunities of life which the Scala girls will have. After the concert, Steven Kolacny talked with Luna's grandmother and aunt. These 0110 concerts were more than a noble and meaningful initiative.

We have noticed that our very favourite percussionist David Demeyere has not been mentioned in the credits in the booklet of our new CD.
 

This certainly will be corrected in future editions and we are apologizing to David who is the man behind the warm bass in 'Gorecki' and 'Station Approach'.
 

After all ... It All Leads To David!